As a friend said after I and another friend recently finished this, "You’ve completed the Heston sci-fi trilogy of Apes, Omega Man and Soylent Green. Automatic rifles for each of you!" I'd rather have some strawberries, bourbon, and some "furniture." Just remember, my favorite color is green when you take me "Home."

Charles Heston pretty much saves this movie from being a complete disaster. It has a very interesting premise but is ultimately underwhelming due to very slow pacing, a messy plot and no real stand out performances from the supporting cast apart from his partner. There was also some ridiculous portrayals of the future such as the "scoopers" and what qualifies as riot gear. However, I will always enjoy Heston in any kind of sci-fi film and he manages to give a charismatic and adventurous performance here as always. If you want great Heston sci-fi watch the Omega Man instead.

Saw on the big screen as part of the Sci-Fi Spectacular.

I have a vague memory of seeing this in science class when I was younger but I really didn't remember anything about it, except that famous ending. This was a really great flick and sadly I picture our future being more like this and less like Back to the Future 2.

While it's not the best of the apocalyptic sci-fi movies that Charlton Heston starred in, SOYLENT GREEN is certainly the most disturbing. Like PLANET OF THE APES, SOYLENT GREEN has a twist that has become so engrained in the pop culture landscape, it's hard to imagine anyone watching it today without already knowing it. But it's the world this movie builds that makes it so compelling. PLANET OF THE APES and THE OMEGA MAN feature Heston exploring the ruins of mankind, whereas SOYLENT GREEN has him witnessing its fall, as everything surrounding him is diseased and hopeless. This makes the film's revelation upsetting, even if you knew it going in. I mostly knew Richard Fleischer for silly movies like CONAN THE DESTROYER and MR. MAJESTYK, but after seeing this and MANDINGO, I take him a lot more seriously as a filmmaker.

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weird-ass ending

This movie is pretty ingenious.

easily a favorite and very quotable.

Charles Heston pretty much saves this movie from being a complete disaster. It has a very interesting premise but is ultimately underwhelming due to very slow pacing, a messy plot and no real stand out performances from the supporting cast apart from his partner. There was also some ridiculous portrayals of the future such as the "scoopers" and what qualifies as riot gear. However, I will always enjoy Heston in any kind of sci-fi film and he manages to give a charismatic and adventurous performance here as always. If you want great Heston sci-fi watch the Omega Man instead.

Dari sisi cerita, Soylent Green hanya sebuah film bergenre procedural biasa. Tema sci-fi dengan penggambaran masa depan yang suram, dengan krisis pangan serta overpopulasi yang membuatnya berbeda. Ditambah nuansa slick dan seksi a la 70-an serta gaya Charlton Heston yang khas.

It's not entirely interesting, and the ending wasn't very big of a surprise due to my knowing of it. It's extremely slow, and the payoff just wasn't very good because of the ending being so largely known.

The acting was good in some places, and bad in some other places. The futuristic dystopian setting was done well, but most of the best looking parts of it were outside, which wasn't shown a whole lot. The few fight scenes didn't look very good excluding the gunfight scene in the ending.

The book may be better, but the movie was a tad too uninteresting.

They must be putting something else into the other soylent foods, if Charlton Heston's character is only slowed minimally from both an upper body and leg wound.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

As a friend said after I and another friend recently finished this, "You’ve completed the Heston sci-fi trilogy of Apes, Omega Man and Soylent Green. Automatic rifles for each of you!" I'd rather have some strawberries, bourbon, and some "furniture." Just remember, my favorite color is green when you take me "Home."

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.